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TIL in 1955, a local Sears store in Colorado Springs, CO, had an ad stating children can call Santa on Christmas Eve. The phone number listed was misprinted, and calls were directed to NORAD; thus starting a yearly tradition

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9Apm TIL the first (Russian) spacewalk encountered problems leading to reentry deep in Siberia, where the astronauts had to camp in the reentry module overnight to keep bears and wolves at bay.
gYBL TIL: No other species, including our own, is responsible for the loss of as many human lives each year as mosquitoes
8ajya TIL that, on the same day that James Van Allen announced his discovery of the radiation belts that now bear his name, the US military contacted him to inquire about firing nukes into them.
6rVX TIL that Prince started YesWeCode.org to help low income kids learn to be programmers.
xVe5b TIL that the Sphynx cat came about barely in the 1960s and originated in Canada when a domestic cat gave birth to a hairless kitten. It was then bred solely for its natural hairless trait.